Bushfire Management Report

                               Ecological Natural Area Management

      8.4     Recommendations for siting and landscaping.........................................................................25
      8.5     Recommendations for lodgement points for burning debris.....................................................25
      8.6     Recommendations for on-going management of buildings & landscaping..............................26
      8.7     Recommendations for Part E: Natural hazards of Qld State Planning Policy 2017.................26
9 References................................................................................................................................ 27
10 Appendices............................................................................................................................. 28
   10.1 Appendix 1: Regional Ecosystem full descriptions.................................................................28
   10.2 Appendix 2: Software report from the bushfire behaviour modelling.....................................29
   10.3 Appendix 3: Qualifications and experience of the author.......................................................31
   10.4 Appendix 4: The fire run paper by Tan (2006)........................................................................32


                                                             List of Figures
Figure 1: Proposed site plan......................................................................................................................8
Figure 2: Excerpt from The Noosa Plan Bushfire Overlay map showing the house in an area mapped as
High Potential Bushfire Intensity................................................................................................................9
Figure 3: Excerpt from the Queensland Bushfire Potential Intensity mapping showing the house in an
area mapped as High Potential Bushfire Intensity.....................................................................................9
Figure 4: Drone aerial photography acquired on 19 November 2019 showing Lot configuration, house
location, vegetation, rural residential areas, building envelope and 5m contour lines.............................10
Figure 5: Map of the Queensland Vegetation Management Act conservation status of the mapped
Remnant regional Ecosystems near the house .......................................................................................11
Figure 6: View east of the house showing the vegetation cleared downslope to native forest vegetation
confirmed as Eucalyptus spp, Corymbia citriodora open forest...............................................................12
Figure 7: View west of the house showing a driveway to the next door house with native forest
vegetation confirmed as Eucalyptus spp, Corymbia citriodora open forest.............................................12
Figure 8: Map of the visually assessed vegetation..................................................................................13
Figure 9: Map of vegetation patches used for assessment of patch and corridor filtering.......................17
Figure 10: Map of the assessed Bushfire Intensity Classes showing that all of the the house in an area
assessed as Potential Bushfire Impact Buffer Class................................................................................19
Figure 11: Map showing the modelled bushfire attacks ..........................................................................20
Figure 12: The area of vegetation required to be cleared for bushfire risk mitigation shown with red
crosshatching)..........................................................................................................................................23
Figure 13: Methodologies for minimising the lodgement points for burning debris around the house....25

                                                              List of Tables
Table 1: Regional Ecosystems near the house........................................................................................11
Table 2: Conservation significance of the Remnant Regional Ecosystems derived from the Queensland
Vegetation Act..........................................................................................................................................14
Table 3: Potential fuel loads for the assessed vegetation communities based on their applicable
potential fuel hazard classes....................................................................................................................16
Table 4: Table of Potential Bushfire Intensity Class derived from Potential Fire line Intensity.................18
Table 5: Tabulation of the potential bushfire intensity classes for each of the patches ...........................18
Table 6: Assessed Bushfire Attack Levels (BAL) for the modelled bushfire attacks................................22



Bushfire Risk Assessment and Management Plan for a house at 26 Little Springs Lane, Lake MacDonald                                       February 2021

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